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Multiple readings Hugging face open source ai attack Opportunity & adoption · 2 attributable reactions
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Hugging face open source ai attack

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · kate conger
“how hugging face used a novel AI cyberattack as an opportunity to advocate for open source: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...” evidence ↗
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Mark Riedl Ryan Mac 🙃 kate conger tweety fish
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Mark Riedl: Why isn't HuggingFace suing OpenAI? Because being hacked by OpenAI is a huge PR win for HuggingFace, who is now using it to rally around the cause of openness. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/t...
The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky : Regardless of whether they should sue, I don’t follow this logic.
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6 experts · 21 posts · 8d ago
Mark Riedl Eugene Vinitsky Juan Diego Rodriguez Colin rev. howard arson Sophie Greenwood
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“I think, without ever acknowledging it explicitly, I had sort of resigned myself to this. But now I feel weirdly re-inspired to do some useful work here” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Repulsed by the idea that we should sit idly by while frontier labs determine the trajectory of the AI transition. They don’t know how to make systems “safe” or “aligned“ nor do any such notions ma…
Eugene Vinitsky: I think, without ever acknowledging it explicitly, I had sort of resigned myself to this. But now I feel weirdly re-inspired to do some useful work here
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6 experts · 23 posts · 11d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings tachikoma B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) brennan
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“That’s incredibly impressive. I’m on my third turn and I’m enmeshed in a conversation about Spinoza and Fichte. It’s interpreting my actions faithfully but it also feels like there’s a narrative st…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: People who know about game design: Do you think open-world procedural narrative on the fly is bottlenecked by hardware, or is it a situation where players just don’t in practice want the openness t…
Ted Underwood: Or are we already building that? I am kind of gaming illiterate beyond Sim City, Civ, and hazy memories of Bioshock.
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2 experts · 8 posts · 8d ago
Mark Riedl Thomas Dietterich
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“University is about exercising this incredible organ we have called the brain. (It’s about other things too; another rant for another day).” evidence ↗
Mark Riedl: Majoring in CS used to mean a decent job (might still). CS was never meant to be about just programming. CS departments let students think that anyway because money. CS enrollments are dropping. Th…
Mark Riedl: In a world full of computers, coding is one way we translate ideas into reality. Until now, it required programming skills that required effort to learn. Now, anyone can make. That’s great. When on…
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